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), and finally, how good they felt on the skin.

BH Cosmetics' Crystal Zodiac makeup brushes

After all, if you’re going to use them every day, they need to feel good.

Plus, the set is truly stunning.

Each brush represents a zodiac sign, so the handles all come in different crystalline colors.

The full 12 brush zodiac set from BH Cosmetics

What ultimately allowed these beautiful brushes to rise to the top of our list is how soft they are.

They don’t absorb too much product and they blend beautifully.

Other brush sets we tested pulled makeup off the skin or were incredibly bristly and hard or both.

The full set of makeup brushes from e.l.f. Cosmetics

None of this was an issue with this BH Cosmetics set.

If you’re free to’t, though, our first runner-up is a perfect substitute.

Professional Cosmetics Professional Brush Set.

The full beginner makeup brush set from Real Techniques

set is a very close second.

They’re also incredibly soft almost identical in feel to the BH Cosmetics brushes.

While this is neither a bad nor a good thing, it is worth noting.

The full makeup brush set from EcoTools

We would end up fixing the steps that these brushes messed up with either the e.l.f.

or BH Cosmetics brushes, which immediately warned us that these wouldn’t be our winner.

You also can’t necessarily makeanylook with these five brushes.

The bamboo makeup brush set from Morphe

For the same price, you could get 12 brushes from e.l.f.

that are softer and of higher quality.

It includes six brushes as well as a makeup sponge and an accompanying travel case.

These brushes are certainly softer than Real Techniques', but they also hold a lot of product.

But there are certainly better brush sets out there that are still affordable and include more brush variety.

What ultimately holds this brush set back is the number of brushes included.

If you added one or two face brushes, you’d be set.

Since there are seven eye brushes, however, youcando amazing eye looks.

We must say, the eye brushes are pretty impeccable.

They’re soft and pick up product without holding too much of or creating too much fallout from eyeshadows.